Indivisible

"The professorial Fed Chairman, his ever-whitening beard and ever-receding hairline making him look ever-the-more gnomish, loosened his tie and poured himself a drink at the 7:30 open. Perhaps the great ship would not sink, he hoped. The Fed had key-stroked hundreds of billions of dollars throughout the night and had managed to prop up the wobbly futures markets. Their hope was that the animal spirits could be tamed by the NYSE open. But the entire system sank right from the bell."The day of reckoning has come. And a tormented soldier, a corrupt sheriff, a vain diplomat and a desperate father try to survive the chaos of a total economic collapse in contemporary America.